Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson

 

     

 

Louis Wilkinson

Grove Heart

Ripley

Surrey

 

 

Dec 1 1940

 

 

The Gardens

Middle Warberry Rd

Torquay

 

 

Dear Louis

 

Disgraceful of me not to have answered yours of a month ago. Reason: ill, damned ill, the day and night nurse kind, the whole time. Local reporters lurking behind trees awaiting my decease. Better now, I don't think the fable of Death and the Woodcutter very sound psychology in all cases. However, here I am, and I would I were on my ancestral estates in Rainbow Valley. My Cornish story is that a fleet got within site of the cliffs, found a minefield, and napoo. I've had it without variation from good sources: 2 eye-witnesses. Very different to story released. I'm tired of being embusqué: but see no chance to break in and do anything. Tell me your plans.

 

Yours

 

Aleister

 

 

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